Renée Zellweger

Until she headlined Jerry Maguire opposite Tom Cruise in late 1996, Renée Zellweger claimed extremely limited public recognition. Though Zellweger essayed several key roles before Maguire, the vulnerability and versatility that the actress exhibited as Cruise's (long undeclared) love interest in Cameron Crowe's seriocomedy netted much-deserved praise from critics and audiences alike. Though the Academy passed her over when that year's Oscar nominations rolled around, she received several other laurels for her work in Maguire, including the title of Best Breakthrough Performer by the National Board of Review.Born April 25th, 1969, the willowy, strawberry blonde Zellweger began life in Katy, TX, a small town on the outskirts of Houston. The town was so small that it possessed neither cable television nor a movie theater. As a result, Zellweger reportedly did not see her first art film until she was a student at the University of Texas in Austin. Her career at U.T. was an exceptional one; a regular on the Dean's List, she graduated a year early with a B.A. in Radio, Film, and Television. While in college, Zellweger took an acting class and discovered a knack for performing; following graduation, she made her feature-film debut with a bit part in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993). She then landed a role playing a whacked-out waitress in Love and a .45 (1994), for which she won her first Independent Spirit Award nomination; she won a second nomination for The Whole Wide World (1996), earning additional acclaim at various film festivals.Following the tremendous success of Jerry Maguire, Zellweger went on to prove herself as a versatile actress able to play roles ranging from an ambitious journalist (who temporarily shelves her career to care for her mother) in One True Thing (1998) to a rebellious Hassidic Jew in Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies (1998). She then exhibited a capacity for romantic comedy in The Bachelor (1999), starring as the long-suffering girlfriend of a commitment-phobic Chris O'Donnell. Zellweger's second role as a deeply confused soap opera fanatic in Neil LaBute's offbeat crime comedy Nurse Betty won her the Best Actress in a Comedy Award at the 2000 Golden Globes. Nominated for yet another Golden Globe the following year for her memorable performance in Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), that same role also earned Zellweger her maiden Oscar nod. The following few years found Zellweger's leading lady status growing and numerous lucrative film offers flowing in, and the release of White Oleander (2002) the starlet received numerous positive reviews despite the film's lackluster performance. Later that same year, Zellweger was on top of the world when she received rave reviews for her role in Chicago. Based on the popular Broadway musical of the same name, director Rob Marshall's flashy cinematic extravaganza received nearly unanimous praise accompanied by multiple Academy Award nominations, including a second Best Actress in a Leading Role nod to Ms. Zellweger for her lively performance.Zellweger lost the award bid to Nicole Kidman, and then teamed up with that actress for Anthony Minghella's epic Cold Mountain. The performance netted Zellweger her third Oscar nomination, and on February 29, 2004, her losing streak ended as she took home the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Attempting to keep up the momentum, Zellweger then returned to the character that earned her her first Oscar nod, starring in the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004). Unfortunately, that outing (directed by To Wong Foo helmer Beeban Kidron) failed to draw the critical acclaim of its predecessor and was widely greeted with public apathy in the States, but in the final analysis, it grossed nearly as much as the premier outing (with a massive overseas take). After the second Bridget Jones installment, Zellweger's screen activity decrescendoed somewhat, but she placed a heightened emphasis

I wouldn't go near that rooster if I was you. He's the devil I'm sure of it. He's Lucifer himself.

Ruby Thewes

Why I depise a floggin' rooster.

Ada Monroe

I wouldn't go near that rooster if I were you. He's the devil I'm sure of it. He's Lucifer himself.

Ruby Thewes

Why I despise a flogging rooster!

Roxie Hart

Forget it. It'll never work.

Velma Kelly

Why not?

Roxie Hart

'Cause I hate you.

Velma Kelly

There's only one business in the world where that's no problem at all.....[She raises her eyebrow, grins slyly and Roxie turned around and change her sad mood into a glad condition.]

Velma Kelly

There's only one business in the world where that's no problem at all.

Velma Kelly

We can make a couple hundred a week. Think about it, Roxie. Our faces back in the papers, our names on the marquee.Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart.

Roxie Hart

Shouldn't it be alphabetical?

Velma Kelly

That could work.

Roxie Hart

A couple hundred? Maybe we could ask for a thousand.

Velma Kelly

We're worth it...

Velma Kelly

We're worth it.

Beatrix Potter

You think that's lucky? Your mother is a monster!
No, its fine. My mother and I have come to an understanding.
We've agreed to not understand each other.

Lexie Littleton

And don't think just 'cause you haven't said anything that I don't know what you're up to. I'm talking to you, behind the magazine. Don't you know I could have you arrested for eavesdropping?

Dodge Connolly

Excuse me?

Lexie Littleton

Or are you really an avid reader of "Ladies Home Journal?"

Dodge Connolly

I never miss an issue.

Lexie Littleton

Sure. Yeah. These are a lot like your plays, only a little more... effective.

Lexie Littleton

Sure. Yeah. These are a lot like your plays, only a little more effective.

Dodge Connolly

I'm not afraid to say it. I'm in love with Leonard. Go ahead and laugh, everyone does. We had something beautiful until you came along. You think you can just toss him away like a sack of flour?

Carter Rutherford

Wait. Where were you two?

Dodge Connolly

Out.

Lexie Littleton

Nowhere.

Carter Rutherford

Did you *kiss* her?

Carter Rutherford

Did you kiss her?

Lexie Littleton

Now wait a minute.

Carter Rutherford

I want answers!

Dodge Connolly

Yeah, I kissed her! On the mouth, twice! And I liked it. A lot!

Carter Rutherford

Oh you did, did you?

Dodge Connolly

Yeah!

Lexie Littleton

Thanks.

Dodge Connolly

You're welcome.

Dodge Connolly

So you flying solo, or is the Bullet casting about?

Dodge Connolly

So you flying solo or is the Bullet casting about?

Lexie Littleton

What do you care? You're here to entertain Miss Nipplewidth.

Dodge Connolly

It wouldn't look good for you to get caught in a place like this.

Lexie Littleton

I dare say it wouldn't look good for *anyone* to be caught in a place like this.

Lexie Littleton

I dare say it wouldn't look good for anyone to be caught in a place like this.

Dodge Connolly

Being the slickest operator in Duluth is sort of like being the world's tallest midget, if you ask me!

Lexie Littleton

You know, it's too bad we are so much alike, otherwise we would have gotten along perfectly!

Dodge Connolly

I'll live.

Lexie Littleton

Alone!

Dodge Connolly

So here we are.

Lexie Littleton

Not sure what the next move is.

Dodge Connolly

It happens.

Lexie Littleton

It's the first time for me.

Dodge Connolly

They all say that.

Beatrix Potter

There's something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.

Ruby Thewes

Number one - shut this, it's freezin'. Number two - shut that door, it's freezin'. I'm layin' on my back, with two fingers poked my ears tryin' to shut out who's got a bag of diamonds and who's carryin' a tray. If you wanna get three feet up a bull's ass, listen to what sweethearts whisper to each other.

Jerry Maguire

Hello. I'm looking for my wife. Alright. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. I was good in a living room. Send me in there, I'll do it alone. And now I just... I don't know...but our little company had a good night tonight. A really big night. But it wasn't complete, it wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. I missed my wife. We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, I love you. You complete me. And I just...

Dorothy Boyd

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at hello.

Bridget's Dad

Dad: Ciggy?
Bridget Jones: No, no, thanks. I've given up again.
Dad: Shame. I find them very useful. I take great comfort in the fact they might kill me before things get worse.

Bridget's Dad

Ciggy?

Bridget Jones

No, no, thanks. I've given up again.

Bridget's Dad

Shame. I find them very useful. I take great comfort in the fact they might kill me before things get worse.

Dorothy Boyd

First class, that's what's wrong. It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life.

Dorothy Boyd

In this age, optimism like that is a revolutionary act.

Ada Monroe

Ruby... I'm sorry...

Ruby Thewes

Every piece of this is a man's bullshit... they called this war a cloud over the land but they made the weather then they stand in in the rain and say 'Shit! It's raining!' [starts to cry]

Katie

B.O.B.: Wait, is it the whole 'there isn't a jar in the world I can't open' thing again? Did you find a jar you couldn't open? Did it have pickles in it? Where is the giant jar of pickles!?

B.O.B.

Wait, is it the whole 'there isn't a jar in the world I can't open' thing again? Did you find a jar you couldn't open? Did it have pickles in it? Where is the giant jar of pickles!?

Ada Monroe

Ruby... I'm sorry...

Ruby Thewes

Every piece of this is a ma's bullshit... they called this war a cloud over the land but they made the weather then they stand in in the rain and say "Shit!!! it's raining!!!".... (starts to cry)...

Ruby Thewes

Every piece of this is a ma's bullshit... they called this war a cloud over the land but they made the weather then they stand in in the rain and say 'Shit!!! it's raining!' [starts to cry]

Ruby Thewes

Every piece of this is a ma's bullshit... they called this war a cloud over the land but they made the weather then they stand in in the rain and say 'Shit! It's raining!' [starts to cry]

Ruby Thewes

Number one - shut this door, it's freezing. Number two - shut that door, it's freezing. I'm laying on my back, with my fingers poked in my ears trying to shut out who's got a bag of diamonds and who's carrying a tray. If you want to get three feet up a bull's ass, listen to what sweethearts whisper to each other.

Ruby Thewes

Have you been shot?

Inman

Not lately.

Ruby Thewes

[On discussing the war's origin] Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!'

Velma Kelly

Me and Roxie, We just like to say thank you!!!

Velma Kelly

Me and Roxie, We just like to say thank you!

Roxie Hart

Thank you!!! Believe us we could not have done it,...without you!!!

Roxie Hart

Thank you! Believe us we could not have done it, without you!

Mae Braddock

Every time you get hit, it feels like I'm getting hit, too.

Ruby Thewes

Catastrophe. I can spell it too. Learned it in the same place you did: a school house. "Ruby Thewes. You are a c-a-t-a-s-t-r-o-p-h-e."

Ruby Thewes

Catastrophe. I can spell it too. Learned it in the same place you did: a school house. 'Ruby Thewes. You are a c-a-t-a-s-t-r-o-p-h-e.'

Ruby Thewes

This world won't stand long. God won't let it stand this way long.

Dorothy Boyd

First class, that's what's wrong. It used to be a better meal, now it's a better life.

Jerry Maguire

I love you. You... you complete me. And I just...

Dorothy Boyd

Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "hello".

Dorothy Boyd

Shut up, just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

Dorothy Boyd

I just want to be inspired.

Dorothy Boyd

I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is.

Roxie Hart

Baby what baby? oh!.. Jesus...

Roxie Hart

Baby what baby? Oh!.. Jesus...

Emily Jenkins

are you scared?(Lilith is trembling) well i'm not..

Emily Jenkins

Are you scared?[Lilith is trembling] Well I'm not...

Bridget Jones

Now I'll go home and.......de-bunny

Bridget Jones

Now, I'll go home and... de-bunny.

Ruby Thewes

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!'.

Ruby Thewes

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!'

Ruby Thewes

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'shit, it's raining!'

Velma Kelly

First of all i'd like to point out the qoute about being burgled was said by roxie hart....
Person: DO you swear to tell the whole truth nothing but the truth so help you god
Velma: and then some

Roxie Hart

You want some advice, well here's a piece of advice from me to you, lay, to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Dorothy Boyd

Stop...just stop. You had me at hello.

Dorothy Boyd

Stop... just stop. You had me at hello.

Kate Gulden

Welcome! There's no place like home!

Kate Gulden

[dressed as Dorothy] Welcome! There's no place like home!

Ellen Gulden

Thank God.

Ellen Gulden

[silently, to herself] Thank God.

Bridget Jones

And that was it. Right there. Right there, that was the moment... I suddenly realized that unless something change soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine and I'd finally die fat and alone and be found three weeks later half-eaten by Alsatians, or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

Bridget Jones

Interviewer: What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon?
Bridget: It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out.

Interviewer 1

What do you think about the El Nino phenomenon?

Bridget Jones

It's a blip. Latin music's on its way out.

Bridget Jones

Wait a minute... nice boys don't kiss like that.

Mark Darcy

Oh yes, they fuckin' do.

Bridget Jones

This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.

Bridget Jones

After all, what's worse than a smug married couple? Lots of smug married couples.

Bridget Jones

The only thing worse than smug married couple; lots of smug married couples.

Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum, hi.

Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum... Hi.

Wayne

i interviewed many children till now but never felt like this

Wayne

I interviewed many children till now, but never felt like this.

Emily Jenkins

how did you feel

Emily Jenkins

How did you feel?

Wayne

threatened...

Wayne

Threatened.

Ann Deveraux

I love my sister. It's being around her I hate.

Ann Deveraux

I love my sister, George. It's being near her that I hate.

Velma Kelly

He was trying to burgle me.

Roxie Hart

He was trying to burgle me.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison

From what I hear, he's been burgling you three times a week for the past month.

Martin Harrison

From what I hear, he's been burgling you three times a week for the past month.

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison

This is hanging case, and we're ready to go to in front of the jury tomorrow.

Roxie Hart

Wha-Wha-What do you mean hanging?

Assistant District Attorney Martin Harrison

You're not so tough now, are you?

Velma Kelly

What do ya mean hanging?

Bridget Jones

At least, now that I'm in my thirties, I can hold my drink.

Roxie Hart

Don't you wanna take my picture?

Emily Jenkins

They say when you're born you're given your eternal soul. The part of you that lives on, lives again. Whatever evil she is,didn't come from us. It was already there. From the moment she came into being, she brought something with her. Something older, destructive. Soul of a demon.